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indictable, a.|ɪnˈdaɪtəb(ə)l|
[f. indict v.1 + -able.]
1. Liable to be indicted or accused of a crime.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Indictable, that may be..indicted or prosecuted. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 97. 1/2 We stand Indictable of a Non-compliance. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. V. 310 The abbot..should not be indictable before any other person than the Emperor. 1817Cobbett Wks. XXXII. 72 These gallant Knights..are, I think, fairly indictable for an attempt at fraud.
2. That renders one liable to an indictment; on account of which an indictment may be raised.
1721Mod. Rep. X. 336 The keeping of a gaming house is an offence indictable at common law as a nusance. 1768Blackstone Comm. I. ii. (ed. 2) 167 The reasons..extended equally to every indictable offence. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Culture Wks. (Bohn) II. 364 The sufferers parade their miseries,..reveal their indictable crimes that you may pity them. 1871Blackie Four Phases i. 131 Even though the points had been proven, there was no indictable offence.
Hence inˈdictably adv., so as to be indictable.
1824De Quincey Goethe Wks. 1863 XII. 194 If the novel be German, this is indictably indecent. |